Art and politics mix, often poorly. Artists are sometimes the hoodwinked emissaries of the latter, sponsored, enlisted and marshalled by the state and corporate entities. Self-proclaimed radical artists can become compliant, or at the very least mute cogs, aware of …
Introduction
As revelations of sexual assaults and harassment roil the worlds of politics, sports and entertainment, one institution has largely escaped media and public scrutiny: the U.S. military.1
According to the Department of Defense’s most recent report, in 2016 …
Introduction. The World Bank Methodology
The World Bank methodology regarding to measurement of poverty is described in the World Development Report 1990: Poverty? In this “authoritative” study on global poverty published in 1990, the “upper poverty line” is arbitrarily set …
Samedi, trois semaines après la répression contre le référendum du 1ᵉʳ octobre sur l’indépendance catalane, le Premier ministre espagnol Mariano Rajoy a invoqué l’article 155 de la Constitution espagnole pour suspendre l’autonomie catalane.
L’action a fait se précipiter 450 000 …
